"Sleeping Beauty" (Australia)

"Sleeping Beauty" (Australia)

***1/2 (out of four) Not a cartoon. Full of nudity. Really. This raw, sure-to-cause-post-screening-arguments take on "Sleeping Beauty" delivers such a densely packed examination of life and the relative value of people and objects that I can't wait to write more about it closer to the film¿s official release. For now know that the movie's about Lucy's (Emily Browning) job working for an unusual, exclusive business that requires her to pour drinks in her underwear and, later, to be drugged into unconscious sleep while rich old men get naked and join her in bed, allowed to do virtually anything but have sex with her. What emerges from this, Lucy's four other part-time jobs and a variety of eerie interactions is the difference between surviving and living, as well as a distinction between the situations in which beauty doesn't matter and ones in which it's the only thing that does. Which do you think pays better? See it: 8:10 p.m. Oct. 16; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17

***1/2 (out of four) Not a cartoon. Full of nudity. Really. This raw, sure-to-cause-post-screening-arguments take on "Sleeping Beauty" delivers such a densely packed examination of life and the relative value of people and objects that I can't wait to write more about it closer to the film¿s official release. For now know that the movie's about Lucy's (Emily Browning) job working for an unusual, exclusive business that requires her to pour drinks in her underwear and, later, to be drugged into unconscious sleep while rich old men get naked and join her in bed, allowed to do virtually anything but have sex with her. What emerges from this, Lucy's four other part-time jobs and a variety of eerie interactions is the difference between surviving and living, as well as a distinction between the situations in which beauty doesn't matter and ones in which it's the only thing that does. Which do you think pays better? See it: 8:10 p.m. Oct. 16; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17

***1/2 (out of four) Not a cartoon. Full of nudity. Really. This raw, sure-to-cause-post-screening-arguments take on "Sleeping Beauty" delivers such a densely packed examination of life and the relative value of people and objects that I can't wait to write more about it closer to the film¿s official release. For now know that the movie's about Lucy's (Emily Browning) job working for an unusual, exclusive business that requires her to pour drinks in her underwear and, later, to be drugged into unconscious sleep while rich old men get naked and join her in bed, allowed to do virtually anything but have sex with her. What emerges from this, Lucy's four other part-time jobs and a variety of eerie interactions is the difference between surviving and living, as well as a distinction between the situations in which beauty doesn't matter and ones in which it's the only thing that does. Which do you think pays better? See it: 8:10 p.m. Oct. 16; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17